Wednesday Screenings

Wednesday August 26 th the departments starts with a double-bill super-screening featuring live music with Magnar Åm and Ketil Grøtting from the Music-department. It all takes place in Berte Kanutte, Grand Auditorium at 16.00.

Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Having a cup of coffee, somewhere in the 1920s Paris, film pioneer Luis Bunuel said to painter Salvador Dali
-Tonight I dreamt about a cloud slicing the moon in half, like a razor cutting an eyeball.
-I dreamt about a hand crawling with ants, Dali replied.
-There's the film, lets go and make it!

Following the ideology of the surrealist movement, Bunuels debut film is a free line of association. Images saturated with symbols, which, according to the director, not are meant to symbolize anything, but still easily can awaken the horror and lust hidden deep down in the viewer’s subconscious. Like many early experimental films, it is a plays form and the possibilities of the film medium, but if you are willing to think for yourself and connect the dots, you can still read a quite comprehensible story from it.

Live music
Un Chien Andalou will be accompanied by live music from Ketil Grøtting on piano, and Magnar Åm playing “probably something quite unorthodox”.

The General (1926)
Silent film comedy master Buster Keatons magnus opum. A civil war story about an engineer who loves both his woman and his locomotive, and does his best to please them both. Adapted from the memoirs of solider William Pittenger the film retell some some quite fantastic events around the military raid known as the Great Locomotive Chase. Combining great accuracy in historic details with Keatons famous physical comedy and spectacular stunts, this is probably his both funniest and most serious work.

Where: Berte Kanutte, Grand Auditorium
When: Wednesday August 26th at 16.00-19.00
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